New Delhi [India], August 19 (ANI): Following the arrest of AAP chief Satyender Jain within the Delhi Jal Board sewage therapy plant tender irregularities case, get together MP Sanjay Singh on Wednesday accused the BJP of utilizing central businesses to suppress the Aam Aadmi Party forward of each election, alleging that the arrest was pushed by the BJP’s worry of defeat within the upcoming Punjab polls.
Speaking to reporters, Singh linked the timing of Jain’s arrest with Punjab elections approaching subsequent 12 months.
‘Satyendar Jain has been arrested as a result of earlier than each election, the BJP needs to suppress the Aam Aadmi Party and win elections by some means (saam-daam-dand-bhed). You could recall that throughout the Delhi elections, our Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested; Manish Sisodia, who was the Education Minister at the moment, was arrested; Health Minister Satyendar Jain was arrested; and I used to be arrested,’ Singh stated.
‘Now with elections in Punjab approaching, the BJP is dealing with a large defeat in Punjab. They know they can not win the election. So, out of frustration and desperation, they’re taking this motion,’ he stated.
Singh stated Jain, who serves as AAP’s co-in-charge for Punjab, had been implicated in a case courting again two years, stating that Jain was already in jail on the time.
‘Satyendar Jain was arrested as a result of he’s the co-in-charge for Punjab. He was actively engaged in organisational work there, working day and night time tirelessly. In a pretend, baseless, false, two-year-old case–dating to a time when he wasn’t even there and was in jail–they have forcibly thrown him into jail with none proof or proof. Satyendar Jain was acquitted with full honour earlier, and he will likely be acquitted with honour once more sooner or later. There isn’t any case in opposition to him in anyway,’ Singh stated.
He additional alleged that the arrest was aimed toward derailing the welfare initiatives of the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann authorities in Punjab.
‘This case is nothing however the frustration of Prime Minister Modi. This case is only the frustration of the Bharatiya Janata Party. This is solely as a result of worry of defeat haunting the BJP in Punjab. And that is additionally an try to stall and hinder the welfare work being carried out by Bhagwant Mann’s authorities in Punjab–in training, healthcare, electrical energy, water, offering irrigation water to farmers, providing 10 lakh medical insurance coverage, and transferring 1,500 into the accounts of moms and sisters,’ Singh stated.
Echoing related criticism, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann stated that the arrest matches a sample with different AAP leaders round election time.
‘He has been arrested as a result of he’s the co-in-charge of Punjab, and he was intentionally arrested simply as they did earlier than, like when Sanjay Singh was picked up throughout the Delhi elections. The case they’re speaking about occurred when he was in jail. This is the BJP’s approach of working throughout elections,’ Mann stated throughout a presser.
Satyendar Jain himself claimed that his arrest was linked to the upcoming Punjab Assembly elections.
‘It is completed due to Punjab elections,’ Jain stated after being arrested within the case.
Before the court docket listening to within the DJB alleged rip-off case, Senior Advocate Maninder Singh for Satyender Jain, stated, ‘Supreme Court tips have been violated. The grounds of arrest are lacking.’
Along with Satyender Jain, the ACB can also be presenting different accused – Udit Prakash Rai (IAS), former CEO, Delhi Jal Board, Ankit Srivastava, former contractual guide, Delhi Jal Board, Nagendra Yadav, Proprietor M/s AN Enterprises, Raja Kumar Kurra, Owner M/s Euroteck Environment Pvt. Ltd, Pankaj Verma, Proprietor M/s Srijanhar- earlier than Rouse Avenue Court.
They have been arrested in an ACB FIR registered on 11.05.2024 underneath Sections 7, 7A, 9, 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (as amended in 2018) learn with Sections 42, 409, 418, 120-B IPC.
Jain was arrested for alleged large-scale irregularities, manipulation of tender circumstances and felony conspiracy within the tendering course of associated to the augmentation and upgradation of Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB). (ANI)